"Sock It to Me"

[Wilson Gray]

Uh, I'm not sure what I did to cause this to happen. But, in any case,
my apologies.

-Wilson Gray

On Jun 7, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> On Jun 5, 2005, at 5:57 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>> FWIW, "lynching" has never been restricted to hanging, though in
>> modern usage that does seem to be the usual connotation.  Undoubtedly
>> it's been influenced by innumerable movie lynchings of hoss and cattle
>> thieves who are uniformly hanged by vigilantes.
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>> JL
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>> Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>> At 3:03 AM -0400 6/5/05, Sam Clements wrote:
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>>> From: "Wilson Gray"
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>>> Subject: Re: "Sock It to Me"
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>>>> Jesus! - you should pardon the expression - how long have you been
>>>> living in this country, Ben? Are you really so unaware of the way
>>>> that
>>>> things were and are? Don't you recall that, in the _'Sixties,_ the
>>>> lynching of blacks and even of some Jews was still a commonplace
>>>> practice?
>>>> -Wilson
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>>> Assuming you're referring to Goodman and Schwermer, I'd hardly call
>>> lynching
>>> of Jews in the Sixties a "commonplace practice."
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>> And technically, IIRC, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner (along
>> with James Chaney, who was of course black and not a Jew) were not
>> lynched, nor was Violet Liuzzo (who was neither, but another murdered
>> civil rights volunteer), although other whites working alongside
>> blacks during those years may well have been murdered by lynching (as
>> opposed to shooting, stabbing, burning, etc.) during the era of
>> voting registrations drives and freedom riding. I can't recall
>> hearing about any whites (Jewish or not) who were, though.
>>
>> Larry
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